https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1475563902243164160 / #NMUSBloombergOpinionTylerCowen "Too many critics of wokeism make the mistake of focusing on purely local status relations. They are obsessed with the influence of woke forces in their intellectual communities -- their universities, their media universe, and so on. Oddly but perhaps appropriately, this is exactly the mistake that the woke themselves make. " https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-19/woke-movement-is-global-and-america-should-be-mostly-proud #TauntWokeism #TVTheWhiteLotus
"The French clearly see wokeism as a carrier of American cultural influence. 'French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas -- specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism -- are undermining their society,' the New York Times reported in February".
Supplementary: #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesNorimitsuOnishi "Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.
Pitted against them is a younger, more diverse guard that considers these theories as tools to understanding the willful blind spots of an increasingly diverse nation that still recoils at the mention of race, has yet to come to terms with its colonial past and often waves away the concerns of minorities as identity politics." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html #NoREuropeFrance #MetaphorThreatExistential #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREEmmanuelMacron #OrgClassifPPFRRenaissanceREJeanMichelBlanquer #TauntCultureCancel #OrgFRParisOperaAlexanderNeef #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp #OtheringCaricatureSlaveryNWord #OrgClassifPPFRRassemblementNationalRNMarineLePen #NewspaperFRBrdshtLeMonde #NoRAmericaNorthCanadaToronto #IndivScholarStephaneBeaud and #IndivScholarGerardNoiriel (2021). 'Race et sciences sociales: Essai sur les usages publics d'une catégorie' [Race and the Social Sciences:essays on public usage of a category]. #NarrativeNationalIdentity #MetaphorWarCulture #PoliticsNationalismFrance #TheoryCulturalImperialismUS